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In the regions of Siberia and the Far East, they introduced a moratorium on abortion
In the two regions of Siberia and the Far East, the authorities introduced a temporary moratorium on abortion. According to Kommersant, it operates in the Primorsky Territory and Yakutia from July 31 to August 3. The reason for the ban on conducting pregnancy abortion was to participate in the “Give me life” action. For several years, it has been held by the Fund of Socio-Cultural Initiatives, the president of which is the wife of the Prime Minister of Russia Svetlana Medvedeva.
The chief obstetrician-gynecologist of Primorye Evgenia, the joke told the publication that the edge was involved in the All-Russian action for the fifth time. The ban is called "days of silence." According to doctors, these are "not the days of restrictions, but the days of rethinking."
The Ministry of Health of Yakutia reported that they decided to ban on, since there were no special reduction in the number of abortion in the region from ordinary information shares.
The Foundation for Socio-Cultural Initiatives clarified that they are holding the “Give me life” campaign together with the Russian Ministry of Health, but they did not give recommendations about “Days of silence” there.
“We have an offset of abortion, but we do not forbid them,” said the representative of the fund.
The chief obstetrician-gynecologist of the Ministry of Health Leila Adamyan clarified that the wording of “Days of silence” has been used since 2011, when amendments have been reduced to the law “On the Basics of Protection of Health of the Russian Federation”, in particular, regulating the procedure for abortion. Women who have decided to have an abortion, depending on the gestational age, are invited to wait from two to seven days.
The President of the Patient Protection League, Alexander Saversky, called the initiative "non -cycling."
According to the January survey of Levada Center sociologists, over the past 20 years, the attitude of Russians has changed to abortion. Today, 35 percent of Russians condemn the termination of pregnancy even in cases where the family cannot afford a child due to poverty. In 1998, only 12 percent of the respondents shared a similar point of view.